This Act may be cited as the Gaming Amendment Act, 1915, and shall form part of and be read together with the Gaming Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the principal Act, or in any other law for the time being in force relating to gaming and lotteries, the Minister of Internal Affairs may, on the application in writing of any person, authorize that person, or any other person or persons, or any association or society of persons, to dispose of any real or personal property of any description by way of raffle or chance, subject, however, to such conditions and restrictions as the Minister thinks proper.

A license shall not be issued by the Minister under this section unless—

The proceeds derived from the disposal of any property under this section, after deducting therefrom a reasonable amount by way of expenses, shall be paid into a war fund to be specified in the application, or into two or more such funds in such proportions as may be specified in the application. If any question arises as to the amount that may be deducted from the proceeds by way of expenses, such question shall be determined by the Minister, whose decision shall be final and conclusive.

The society or trustees administering a war fund to which any moneys are payable under this section may recover such moneys to the use of the fund as if the same were a debt due to the society or trustees by the person authorized by the license to dispose of the property from which such moneys were derived.

If in the year commencing on the first day of August, nineteen hundred and fourteen, or in any subsequent year, any racing club, by reason of the use or occupation of its land or buildings, or any part thereof, for military purposes, has held a less number of race meetings than in the year ended on the thirty-first day of July, nineteen hundred and fourteen, the Minister of Internal Affairs, notwithstanding anything contained in the Gaming Amendment Act, 1910, and notwithstanding that the aggregate number of days mentioned in subsection two of section five of the said Act may thereby be exceeded, may, in any subsequent year or years, on the application of the club, in addition to licenses for a number of days in each year not less than the number of days on which the club was authorized to use the totalizator in the year ended the thirty-first day of July, nineteen hundred and fourteen, issue to the club licenses to use the totalizator for a number of days equal in the aggregate to the number of days which would have been included in the race meetings which the club has been prevented for the reason aforesaid from holding:

Provided that so soon as the racing club shall have so received permits for as many days in excess of its ordinary number as it had previously lost no further permits in excess of its ordinary number shall be issued to such club under the authority of this section.

For the purpose of computing the periods referred to in subsection four of section five of the Gaming Amendment Act, 1910, Sunday shall not in any case be taken into account, and Monday shall in every case be deemed to be consecutive to Saturday.

This Act, except sections three and four hereof, shall be deemed to be repealed immediately on the declaration of peace on the termination of the present war with Germany.